(some feminists may have to remove their boundaries and prejudices to read the book - it isn't what you have been told)
Enlighten me on what you mean by this. Do feminists have some issue with the book and if so, why?
I did not say "feminists have some issues with the book," I said "
some feminists may" have issues. Not with the book, but with The Golden Dawn. Particularly Wiccans, when conversation turns toward the Golden Dawn it also seems to bring into the discussions concepts falsely called "Christian magick" and sometimes stirs the cauldrons of paternal conflict.
Remember, The Golden Dawn is a co-masonic order, a hierarchical structure that accepts the divinity theories of much older times than the Victorian era it was in existence. Thus you encounter concepts such as the fiery Jehovah and other names that instantly strike terribly discordant tones in some sensitive types.
If you automatically are disturbed by "old school" and "old boy" concepts because you fear patriarchal terrors (which, of course, the real world has plenty of that to go around), if the names YHVH and ADONAI invoke distrust in your aura, then I would say there are issues there and I would recommend clearing them out before approaching these systems.
If someone, such as I was back in the nineteen eighties, were able to free themselves from prejudices against the structures built by men, surrounding men, and involving the mainly Judaic names for divinity, the reading and involving themselves with the Golden Dawn can prove a very useful and fruitful path in magick and divination (frequently, in my opinion, hard to tell those two apart). In other words, I meet lots and lots of people into wicca-craft, asatru, druidism, shamanism etc who when I mention The Golden Dawn, Israel Regardie, Aleister Crowley, Thelema, etc, they quite quickly draw daggers and pull up shields against attacks from a possible "christian magician" or other enemy. That's why I said, "it isn't what you have been told," because the truth is - it is none of that stuff.
I only say this because I know from both sides of the fence on the subject, there is a lot of prejudice against The Golden Dawn in this era's magickal community of pagans and neo-pagans, mainly because of it's hierarchical and paternal (seeming) structures.
